Maternal relatives are those people who are related to you through your mother's family. They include your mother's grandparents, parents and siblings, and the sibling's children (your cousins).
Paternal relatives are those people who are related to you through your father's family. They include your father's grandparents, parents and siblings, and the siblings children (your cousins).
"Maternal" is of or pertaining to the mother, "paternal" is of or pertaining to the father.
Paternal is related to the father while maternal is related to the mother. Example: Your maternal parent is your mother and your paternal parent is your father.
Paternal is related to the father while maternal is related to the mother. Example: Your maternal parent is your mother and your paternal parent is your father.
Maternal means from your mother's side and paternal means from your father's side...So, maternal grandma = your mother's motherpaternal grandma = your father's mother,maternal uncle = your mother's brother,paternal uncle=your father's uncle,
maternal grandparents are your mothers parents therfore you must distinguish them from your paternal grandparents which are your fathers parents or things would get all mixed up. you would be saying your moms dad is your dads dad and things would get to seem like incest.
Amo is referring to your paternal uncle. Khalo is referring to your maternal uncle.
In Malayalam, a maternal grandfather is called "ammavan."
Your mother's uncle, whether maternal or paternal, is your great uncle. You are his great nephew if you are male, and his great niece if you are female.
a pair of homologous chromosomes during meiosis. This pairing is called synapsis and allows for genetic recombination to occur between the maternal and paternal chromosomes, contributing to genetic diversity in offspring.
fraternal relates to brotherhood and paternal relates to fatherhood
"Jedu" is the maternal grandfather in Lebanese Arabic, while "jido" is the paternal grandfather. The distinction is based on whether the grandfather is from the mother's side or the father's side of the family.
If you are a boy, you are a nephew to your uncle. If you are a girl, you are a niece. The English language makes no distinction between relationships with a paternal or maternal relative. Uncles are uncles, nephews are nephews, etc., regardless of which side of the family they may be on.